Carl Adamec: Nice Lou Article re AAC Tournament & FOY No Vote

[divots]

Difficult to imagine that Lou didn't garner a single FOY vote....I see 3 seasons of paybacks in her future....

https://www.sny.tv/uconn/news/for-samuelson-youth-served-in-aac-tournament/166612412

 

[RockyMTblue2]

She's a trusted starter on one of the greatest starting 5s in WCBB history. Case closed. They were looking for awards for nonUConn players.

 

[geneticrex]

Let's take a secret vote amongst all AAC staffs and see which league freshman they'd take if given the chance to add that freshman to their team.

Is there any doubt???

 

[Rayvin56]

Love Carl's reason -- she wasn't playing like a freshman...

 

[Kaizen]

Stewart said. "Lou could have and should have won Freshman of the Year, but she needed to be more consistent. She was very consistent this weekend and that's why she was on the all-tournament team."

Agree .....

 

[HGN]

So , if I read the article right...............USF's Laksa won FOY by unanimous vote. And Lou didn't even get one (1) vote. Which meant that USF's coach (Hernandez) didn't vote for KLS either. Nor any of the other AAC coaches.
I hope Lou takes it out on the AAC for the next 3 years............with a vengeance.

 

[bags27]

So , if I read the article right.....USF's Laksa won FOY by unanimous vote. And Lou didn't even get one (1)

I think we should acknowledge that we have a player who will transcend every other player in the league and maybe the country before she's done, and count those blessings. When she was taken out for Gabby near the end of the 1st Q having gone 0-3, I wasn't even worried (like I might have been 6 weeks earlier). We all knew she'd come back in and scorch the place. We just have to keep her away from those Twitter thingies....

 

[Fightin Choke]

So , if I read the article right.....USF's Laksa won FOY by unanimous vote. And Lou didn't even get one (1) vote. Which meant that USF's coach (Hernandez) didn't vote for KLS either. Nor any of the other AAC coaches.
I hope Lou takes it out on the AAC for the next 3 years..with a vengeance.

You're right; it makes no sense. If a coach cannot vote for a player on their own team, then for whom did Jose vote? I could not have been unanimous unless Jose didn't vote.

 

[UcMiami]

I didn't expect her to win and not surprised she got 'no' votes. Laksa had an amazing start to conference play, and 'unanimous' means that she got all but one vote - the one from her coach. They do not say who the coach voted for and I would not be surprised to learn that Jose voted for Samuelson, just as I suspect Geno voted for Williams, but Stewart was also 'unanimous'.

 

[UcMiami]

You're right; it makes no sense. If a coach cannot vote for a player on their own team, then for whom did Jose vote? I could not have been unanimous unless Jose didn't vote.

See my previous post. Unanimous in conference award voting means that you got all the votes except from your own coach who can't vote for you - and typically they do not announce who else got that lone vote, as that negates the 'secrecy of the ballot'. Most of the time they do not even announce the 'others receiving votes' or 'runners up' for non-unanimous awards either.

 

[MilfordHusky]

"Lou grew up a lot this weekend, and that's one of the things we're going to talk about when we get back to campus," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "We're not going to be able to win the national championship without her."

Go back 3 years. Replace "Lou" with "Stewie." Just as Stewie came though in the Final Four as a frosh, look for Lou to make her mark this year. The opponents will focus on the Big 3, but the player from Surf City, USA with the nice smile will make them pay.

 

[EricLA]

So , if I read the article right.....USF's Laksa won FOY by unanimous vote. And Lou didn't even get one (1) vote. Which meant that USF's coach (Hernandez) didn't vote for KLS either. Nor any of the other AAC coaches.
I hope Lou takes it out on the AAC for the next 3 years..with a vengeance.

Agreed. What freshman in the league got Jose's vote??

 

[MilfordHusky]

Well, Diana and Stewie were not conference FOY award winners. I don't think that held them back.

 

[stamfordhusky]

Agreed. What freshman in the league got Jose's vote??

Probably he voted for Lou. It appears that Adamec doesn't understand what "unanimous" means when it comes to conference voting.

 

[Bonpland]

What player wouldn't trade a personal award for a NC?

Milford is right; "losing" the FOY award didn't discourage those girls. And aren't we supposed to be the team that recruits girls who care more about their team than their accolades?

 

[Kibitzer]

"Lou grew up a lot this weekend, and that's one of the things we're going to talk about when we get back to campus,"

Perhaps Lou might say something like this:

"I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California, but I grew up in Uncasville. Connecicut."
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[Kaizen]

Carl: Maybe the reason Samuelson didn't get any Freshman of the Year votes is because she doesn't play like a freshman anymore.

So true, thanks Carl

 

[stamfordhusky]

Carl: Maybe the reason Samuelson didn't get any Freshman of the Year votes is because she doesn't play like a freshman anymore.

So true, thanks Carl

Note that Adamec has no idea whether Lou got Jose's vote or not. He incorrectly assumes that "unanimous" means that no other player got a vote. But it is a fact that one other player got a vote, and the league does not disclose who got that vote.

 

[Ctpaul0825]

Lou is becoming the next UCONN superstar, her awards will come in time.

 

[Huskies Rule]

You don't tug on SAMUELSON'S cape
You don't spit in 33's face
You don't pull that crap on the CALIFORNIA KID
And you don't mess around with LOU

 

[MilfordHusky]

Perhaps Lou might say something like this:

"I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California, but I grew up in Uncasville. Connecicut."
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Huntington Beach: Surf City.

 

[Kibitzer]

For the record:

Connecticut
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